I have very little time for the next few weeks. But I'll be back! AHK is gorgeous!
If you want to earn a bit of money with AHK in the meantime. Maybe you can help that one of my projects is running again.
I only have time to write a bit in the evening.

TOKYO: When hosting an international rugby tournament and welcoming thirsty fans from around the world, the last thing you want to do is run out of beer.
That's the message from Rugby World Cup bosses to Japanese hosts as they gear up for the global showcase that kicks off on September 20.
Japan is the first Asian country to host the World Cup and may be unfamiliar with rugby culture, organisers said, including a healthy thirst for beer - before, during and after the action on the pitch.

Rugby bosses have warned host cities about running out of ale, using anecdotes such as :
-when Australian and Irish fans drank the city of Adelaide dry, forcing emergency supplies to be brought in from surrounding areas.
Around two million litres of beer were downed at stadiums and nearby areas during the 2015 Rugby World Cup with rugby fans having a reputation for outdrinking their football counterparts.

20190509
Typo on Aussie $50 note brings blushes for central bankhttps://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/typo-on-aussie-50-note-brings-blushes-for-central-bank-11517130
SYDNEY: Red-faced bank bosses in Australia admitted to an embarrassing error on Thursday (May 9), revealing their state-of-the-art A$50 note had a typo.
The yellow and green note, which is worth around US$35, came into circulation last October.
It has multiple security features - including microprint of a speech by Australia's first female parliamentarian, Edith Cowan.
But the technology seemingly did not include a spellchecker.
It took seven months for the public to notice "responsibility" was repeatedly misspelt in the text of Cowan's 1921 maiden speech.
"I stand here today in the unique position of being the first woman in an Australian parliament. It is a great responsibilty," the text reads, missing an "i".

20190519 Huawei Google Android Suspensionhttps://www.theverge.com/2019/5/19/18631558/google-huawei-android-suspension
Reached for comment, a Google spokesperson said only “We are complying with the order and reviewing the implications.”
The order, in this case, appears to be the US Commerce Department’s recent decision to place Huawei on the “Entity List,”
which as Reuters reports is a list of companies that are unable to buy technology from US companies without government approval.
Speaking to Reuters, a Google spokesperson confirmed that “Google Play and the security protections from Google Play Protect will continue to function on existing Huawei devices.”
So while existing Huawei phones around the world won’t be immediately impacted by the decision,
the future of updates for those phones as well as any new phones Huawei would produce remains in question.
Huawei is now restricted to using the Android Open Source Project (AOSP),
cutting the company off from critical Google apps and services that consumers outside of China expect on Android devices.
That also means Huawei will only be able to push security updates for Android once they’re made available in AOSP,
assuming the company uses its own update system.
It’s not clear yet how this will affect the full range of Android integrations that Huawei depends on,
but we will update this story when we receive additional clarification about the impacts of Google’s decision.

In western France, a village remembers D-Day's "secret massacre"
GRAIGNES, France: The lost US paratrooper tapped on the door of the Rigault family's farmhouse in Normandy in the early hours of
Jun 6, 1944, miles south of his intended drop zone and soaking from his landing in the surrounding marshland.
After four years under German occupation, 12-year-old Marthe Rigault, awoken by the roar of aircraft overhead, watched as her parents warmed the foreign soldier with a flask of coffee.
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The Germans were brutal in their reprisals against the village, Rigault recalled.
The village priest, Father Albert Leblastier, and a Franciscan priest were shot dead and their bodies burned.
Homesteads were torched. The maimed paratroopers left behind were split into two groups:
some were marched down the road and executed, others were "thrown into the marshes and bayoneted," Rigault recalled.
"We weren't allowed to pull them out for several days."
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Then, in 1984, a small number of the US soldiers whose lives had been saved by the villagers returned to Graignes.
"It was tough for them to come back because they felt that in some way they had abandoned the villagers, left them to face the Germans' revenge,"
said Denis Small, mayor of Graignes for the past 22 years.
"But the village received them for the liberators that they were."
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20190610 Indonesia new capital Jakartahttps://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/commentary/will-indonesia-move-capital-jakarta-java-kalimantan-11591664
Earthquake, floods and water shortages threatens the capital.
Jakarta's river is heavily polluted.
Traffic congestion in Jakarta has resulted in economic losses, reaching 56 trillion rupiah (US$3.8 billion) per year.
As a result, many parties question the urgency of the plan, and even see it as an attempt to distract from other issues during the election campaign.
Before arguing about the right location for the new capital city,
Indonesia must be sure that the decision to move the capital has been supported by evidence and a comprehensive analysis of its implications.
Otherwise, they'll risk repeating the same mistakes and creating problems in the new capital.

-Malware:
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-ILOVEYOU
The ILOVEYOU virus, distributed via email and file sharing, affected 500,000+ systems and caused $15B in damages total, with $5.5B in damages being caused in the first week.

-MyDoom
MyDoom, potentially commissioned by Russian e-mail spammers, was one of the fastest spreading worms.
It's projected that this virus caused $38B in damages.

-SoBig
SoBig was a worm and trojan that circulated through emails as viral spam.
This piece of malware could copy files, email itself to others, and could damage computer software/hardware.
This piece of malware caused $37B in damages and affected hundreds of thousands of PCs.

-WannaCry
WannaCry was an extremely virulent ransomware cryptoworm that also set up backdoors on systems.
The attack affected 200,000+ computers across 150 countries, and caused the NHS $100M in damages with further totals accumulating close to $4B.

-DarkTequila
A sophisticated and evasive piece of malware that targeted users mainly in Latin America, DarkTequila stole bank credentials and corporate data even while offline.
DarkTequila costed millions in damages across many users.

-BlackEnergy
BlackEnergy 2 uses sophisticated rootkit/process-injection techniques, robust encryption, and a modular architecture known as a "dropper".
BlackEnergy was used in a cyberattack that prompted a large-scale blackout in Ukraine in December 2015.

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Europe heatwavehttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48756480
Is the warming caused by human activity?
A scientific study into last year's Europe-wide heatwave by the World Weather Attribution group
concluded that high temperatures in the region were made more likely by human activities that contributed to climate change.

20190629 in China 421,000 electric buses, or 18 per cent of its bus fleet, compared with 300 electric buses in the US.https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/cnainsider/how-china-copycat-technology-giant-rival-united-states-trade-war-11672428
How China the copycat became a tech giant to rival the US
From having four Silicon Valleys to scoring a world first — a city with a 100 per cent electric bus fleet —
China has taken on the US for technological supremacy. Insight looks at how the country did it.
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Across the country, there are an estimated 421,000 electric buses, or 18 per cent of its bus fleet, compared with 300 electric buses in the US.
“The US, Japan and Germany were the pioneers in electric vehicles.
China started only in 2016 but has now become the biggest manufacturer, with over 1.2 million sold last year,” said Jia.
“We should be able to produce every part of the electric vehicle locally … China has the biggest capacity for battery manufacturing, and we’re the biggest providers.”
It is little surprise that China is still the world’s largest market for electric vehicles.
Shanghai, Beijing and Hangzhou are among more than 30 Chinese cities aiming for 100 per cent electric bus fleets by next year.

20190629 Korea DMZ: The world's last Cold War frontierhttps://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/dmz-north-south-korea-world-last-cold-war-frontier-trump-kim-11672762
The 4km-wide DMZ runs for 250km across the Korean peninsula, around 50km north of Seoul and 200km south of Pyongyang.
At its centre is the Military Demarcation Line (MDL), where the front line lay when the ceasefire stopping Korean War hostilities was signed in 1953.
Under the agreement both sides agreed to pull back their forces 2,000m.
To the south, Seoul has established a further buffer zone of varying width where civilian access is restricted.
A barrier separating North and South, heavy weaponry is banned from within the DMZ.
Patrols are allowed but cannot cross the MDL
and no more than 1,000 people from each side are permitted inside the zone at any one time.
It is also littered with minefields.
The areas immediately outside it are some of the most highly fortified places on earth, bristling with artillery, military camps and more minefields.

He tried to prank the DMV. Then his vanity license plate backfired big time.
Everyone hates parking tickets.
Not everyone, however, is an information security researcher with a mischievous side and a freshly minted vanity license plate reading "NULL."
It seemed that a privately operated citation processing center had a database of outstanding tickets, and,
for some reason — possibly due to incomplete data on their end — many of those tickets were assigned to the license plate "NULL."
In other words, the processing center was likely trying to tell its systems it didn't know the plates of the offending cars.
Instead, with Droogie's vanity plate now in play, it pegged all those outstanding tickets on him.
Specifically, over $12,000 worth of outstanding tickets.
"Basically," observed Droogie, "this is bullshit”
After contacting the DMV and the LAPD, and painstakingly explaining his situation, they both told him the same thing: change your plates.
"I said, 'No, I didn’t do anything wrong.'"
But the tickets were still piling up.
Thankfully, the DMV contacted the private citation processing company, which then erased the $12,000 in fines.
However, and this part is key, they didn't actually fix the problem with their system.

20190813 Antivirus Symantec Norton " The Windows updates are blocked or deleted by the antivirus program during installation"https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4512486/windows-7-update-kb4512486
Microsoft and Symantec have identified an issue that occurs when a device is running any Symantec or Norton antivirus program and installs updates for Windows that are signed with SHA-2 certificates only.
The Windows updates are blocked or deleted by the antivirus program during installation, which may then cause Windows to stop working or fail to start.

20190819 Government-to-strength defense-in-Arctichttps://jyllands-posten.dk/politik/ECE11557092/regeringen-vil-styrke-forsvaret-i-arktis/
While US President Donald Trump is waking up with his announcement to buy Greenland,
Defense Secretary Trine Bramsen warns that the Danish defense presence in the Arctic will be strengthened in the coming years.
She points out the Arctic as one of the top five security policy challenges for Denmark in line with the threat
of terror, cyber attacks, uncontrolled migrant flows and an aggressive Russia.
"As the ice melts due to climate change, major changes are taking place and new threat images are being created to the north.
The Arctic's presence in the Arctic will be strengthened in the coming years in response to this development to ensure stability and security," says Trine Bramsen.

Within 15 years, the average annual temperature has risen by about five degrees and has melted the ice.
This releases mineral wealth: precious stones, iron ore, oil, gold, copper, uranium and rare earths, which are needed for the booming construction of rechargeable batteries.
Trump : The global warming has its good!

20190821 Titanic eaten by microbeshttps://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49420935
The RMS Titanic has been underwater for more than 100 years, lying about 600km (370 miles) off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
The passenger liner, which was the largest ship of its time, hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in 1912.
Of the 2,200 passengers and crew onboard, more than 1,500 died.